The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-05

Two pleasure yachts both 6llea with peo-
PIE, capstsed IN . squal Of Yarmouth Thurs
day. Ten persona were drowned.
Tue chip Firth, Of Olns, Scotland, has been
lost In . cyclone in Java waters. The entire
usw. numbering twenty-five, persisted.
Advices from Sicily say that fugitives from
Cataais are spreading cholera throughout TIC
island. Business q at . standstAl every
where.
The coroner's Jury has rendered . verdict
that the failure by the conductor to test the
cir breaks before leaving Port Stanley was the
cause Of the terrible disaster at ct. Thomas,
Ontario.
The house ofcommons went formally ina
body to the house Of lords Tuesday afternoon,
where royal assent was given to the Irisn
crimes act amendment bill, and 1t was thus
made . Law OF the realm.
A violent volcano eruption has occurred on
the island OF Galita, OF the coast Of TunIs.
Streams Of lava are issuing from the crater of
the volcano, and the glare of flames emitted
are Visible for ffty miles.
At the inquest In connection with the ST
Thomas railway disaster, witnesses swore that
the engineer was under the influence If
liquor and unit to control the train; also tia.
the conductor had been drinking, though not
intoxicated.
From Belfast, Dublin, Liverpool, and also
from cities on this side of the water, come
news Of rioting and wild demonstrations on
Orange day, Tuesday. Irishmen enjoyed
themselves to an inordinatc degree, and
broken ekulls and bruises from rocks and
shelalahs were verycommon wherever Orange
men displayed their insignia.
The strikers at the Limerick dock, attend
ed BY . mob numbering 1905, hootei aud
stoned the imported Waterford lahorcrs While
the latter were unloading a tvcssel. Mich
damage was done to the shipping and dock
yard sheds. The police charged on the mob
with drawn batone, and in the lively fight
that followed, many skr.lls were broken. 1t
is feared that there will be more serious
trouble.
The lord mayor Of London Monday evening
gave q banquet to members Of conference ON
laws of the nations. Among the guests we've
NJ. Phelps, United States minister TO Eng
LAND; Hon. David Dudley Field; Hon. Simon
Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Consul-Gcncral
Waller; Emitted States Senator Hawlcy; Murat
Halstead, of the Cincinnati G Commercial Ga.
zstte; Hon Daniel Dougherty and Col. T.
Burr, Of Philadelphia; Hon. Writ Dexter, oi
Chicago. and Rev. G. Hawkins, OF Nehraska.
The Pacific mail steamer, City Rio of lie
Jantero, arrived at San Francisco on Sum!a,
night bringing Hong Kong sdviccs TO July l
and Yokohoma news to July D. By the loss
Of the steamer Sir John Lawrence, in the ha;
of Bengal, 500 lives wers lost, mainly PILGRIMS
Of the best families of Bengal. From the 2ls,
to the Goth of May a cyclone ragged in tile la.
Of Bengal with disastrous results TO Shipping,
and attended with great loss of life. Tie
passengers on board the Sir John Lawrvnc.
numbered 700, officers and men III moer.
ing fifty. The passengers were mainly women
going on the pilgrimage to the famous temple
of Jaggernaught at Purl. There ia scarcely =
native family in Calcutta which does not be
moan the loss of relatives by the disaster.